Reading Quotes

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.

The Phoenix Program is must reading for all.

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

Everything that you want, you are already that.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Children read more when they see other people reading.

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

Great relationships are based on clarity, not mind-reading.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.